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Researchers Hack Over a Dozen Home Routers
An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have published a report demonstrating that a slew of home and small office (SOHO) routers are vulnerable to previously undisclosed vulnerabilities. The report asserts that at least thirteen popular routers can be compromised by a remote attacker, and a number of them do not require knowledge of credentials or active management sessions. Some of the routers are not listed as they work with vendors to fix them, but there are 17 vulnerabilities disclosed, with another 21 pending release. An article on CNET includes an interview with some of the researchers."
pfSense and others like m0n0wall will work on Netgate's ALIX Kits: http://store.netgate.com/ALIX-Kits-C86.aspx
They're small and actually look like a router.
No he isn't doing that. You'll get the same security benefit of having a roll your own box if you loaded your own custom firmware that was better tested, like say tomato or openwrt (I'm not a fan of dd-wrt myself, but it seems secure enough.)
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The Buffalo Nx00 series (mine is an N900 I think) also uses DD-WRT and actively advertises it. In basic mode, it is a Buffalo branded implementation but there is a variable to set which puts it in advanced DD-WRT Mode. It was the primary driver in my decision to purchase said router. My knowledge at the time was that Buffalo only did backup solutions & SANs but went out on a limb and bought it anyway. I have never been more happy. Buy one today!
www.easytomato.org - nicely polished version for a common (and fairly versatile) modern router, the ASUS RT-N16.